As of: February 10, 2024, 12:00 p.m
By: Bert Brosch
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The youth center was full with around 100 visitors.
The guests asked the candidates many questions, including the young voters in the front row.
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A good 100 citizens filled the youth center for the public panel discussion between the two candidates for the mayor's position, Christian Zenner (Greens) and Stephan Keck (SPD).
Kirchheim
- The questions ranged from the kebab shop, a public swimming pool, the financial situation to the state garden show, which opens in May.
The two candidates Keck and Zenner were squeezed by the two journalists Lars Brunckhorst and Anna-Maria Salmen and the audience in the fully occupied youth center, where only a handful of first-time voters got lost, as well as the internet users who tuned in live.
Both candidates were happy to admit that they got along well privately: “We are competitors, but not competitors,” said Keck.
Zenner said he would be a “committed mayor with a lot of perseverance and no ruts.”
“If I only get 35 percent, I would like to work with Stephan as second mayor.” He said outspokenly and self-confidently: As a mayor you need a certain gene, good nerves and sympathy for the people.
“I have all of that.”
Chaos in parking spaces because of the state horticultural show?
First-time voter Torben Loser said he lives in Schlehenring.
There are already too few parking spaces there today.
“Chaos breaks out there during the State Horticultural Show, right?” Mayoral candidate Keck replied that, according to his information, the LGS visitors would all behave well and sensibly: “We have so many parking spaces, there are no problems.” His competitor Zenner said it was important to make it clear to visitors “that they are coming by public transport.
Then they should receive reduced admission.”
Another young voter criticized the fact that students over the age of 18 had to pay an entrance fee or take a long detour on their way to school through the LGS grounds.
Mayor Keck is of the opinion that the line has to be drawn somewhere: "There are discounts for seniors, everyone under 18 is free - that's just the way it is."
In the morning, crossing is free for all students
The state horticultural show's press office added that all students could cross the LGS grounds free of charge between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
“No matter how old they are.” Stephan Keck defended the state horticultural show and the local park as a whole.
“That’s exactly what the people of Kirchheim wanted with 74 percent in the referendum.” However, he had to admit that it wasn’t about the state horticultural show, which was decided by the local council, but only about the local park.
“We are building a second English garden here from which everyone will benefit,” says Keck happily.
For Christian Zenner, the local park, which is far too large for him, and the state horticultural show are “Böltl’s springboard into the state parliament.
And he asked the question: “Who will look after the park after the state horticultural show?”
The candidates also have different opinions at City Hall.
While for Stephan Keck it is precisely planned for the 150 employees that are needed, for Christian Zenner it is far too big and too expensive.
“We have employees in the construction yard, administration and public relations, some of whom don’t have any work at all.”
Financial situation not so dramatic
Eberhard Weidner from the audience suggested renting out parts of the “huge town hall so that we have some income”.
Candidate Keck does not see the community's finances as dramatic: “We have debts, but we have invested a lot in them.
If things get tight, we'll sell the property on Erdinger Strasse and get rid of our debts immediately." Christian Zenner said that in his view, without a development plan, this property is "absolutely worthless and cannot be sold - we therefore have to save significantly."
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Mayoral candidate Keck does not see himself as “Böltl 2.0”.
He will complete his predecessor's projects, but also set his own priorities.
“We have to digest the many new residents and preserve the old town centers.” Christian Zenner sees great potential for savings in staff in the town hall, and there is also a need for much more affordable housing.
The election is on Sunday, February 25th.
The candidates: Stephan Keck (l.) and Christian Zenner are applying for the mayor's chair.
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